Our new preprint showing preliminary results from our droplet on demand tape drive and XES spectrometer system at Diamond VMXi - applied to protein microcrystals including a copper enzyme
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Paper describing clustering methods to separate subtle structural differences in populations of protein crystals - with application to polymorphs, ligand binding.. - led by Amy Thompson @amyjayyyne.bsky.social with VMXi,I24 and Data Analysis at @ddiamond.bsky.social journals.iucr.org/d/issues/202...
New paper out on modulating redox states in heme peroxidases in synchrotron and XFEL experiments
journals.iucr.org/d/issues/202... - nice collaboration with @jarworrall.bsky.social using PAL-FEL and DLS I24
New paper describing our time resolved SFX studies with spectroscopic validation through XES to propose new intermediates in heme peroxidases. A large team of researchers led by Essex and Diamond @jarworrall.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Recent paper showing the power of combining advanced structural biology with QM/MM simulations to understand a heme enzyme. Work between Diamond, STFC, Bristol and Essex. We present evidence for the presence of an unusual protein to heme cross-link.
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We have a fixed term beamline scientist post available at VMXi, Diamond. The successful applicant will join the team at a dedicated room temperature MX beamline and help with user experiments in fragment screening and time resolved serial crystallography.
vacancies.diamond.ac.uk/vacancy/beam...
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Peroxidases have long been considered to use ferryl heme intermediates (Fe(IV) = O) to catalyze oxidative chemistries. Here, Williams et al. find that ferric-oxyl (FeIII–O•–) excited states exist alon...
Bovine, porcine and human insulin data sets are isomorphous in terms of unit cell and symmetry. Through enhancements to the multi-crystal clustering methods in DIALS, species-pure data sets are automa...
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Time resolved X-ray crystallography is experiencing a resurgence in part because of serial methods that readily allow scientists to create stop-motion movies of macromolecular function of photoactivat...
We characterize the formation of a ferryl state of a dye-decolourizing peroxidase by drop-on-chip serial femtosecond crystallography and also the modulation of the heme redox state using dose-resolved...
As part of this work we explicitly measured the XFEL temporal pulse profiles with a Wakefield device rather than inferring pulse length from electron bunch parameters
An exciting PhD studentship available between the U. of Manchester (Sam Lay) and Diamond Light Source -an opportunity to work with experimental time-resolved structural biology and state-of-the-art computational simulations to gain a deep understandingf enzymes.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
